Resumen de Autonomy and advance care planning in liquid times of brain activity: the sound of silence
Autonomy is a fashionable and fresh concept because it has recently generated a permanent and vigorous debate. This discussion is simultaneously bright, imparting meaning to human dignity, and briefly, because it suddenly appears and vanishes from the free will discourse. The post-contemporary construction of autonomy is relevant to understand the role of advance care planning as a strategic puzzle to prepare and shape our final stage of life in a decent society. Analytical autonomy, with its anatomy and structure, dimensions, modalities, variants, and measurability, gives us the tools to evaluate the autonomous agent. Personal autonomy enabled by neurotechnology may create a new insider trading mechanism, disclosing some relevant and innovative answers to the knowledge of ongoing free will, and bridging the gap between the autonomous agent and the hidden agent. This essay aims to explore this path of autonomy, encountering situations involving mental or cognitive disabilities or unconsciousness not as an insuperable obstacle, but as a challenge. The border between the conscious and the unconscious takes us into a grey zone where language develops other meanings and significance, where communication is oscillatory or even non-existent. However “the vision that was planted in my brain, Still remains, Within the sound of silence”.
